Bottle-stopper.



PATENTED MAY 12, 1908.

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PATENT onion.

MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN P. GRUE T, JR,

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 12, 1908.

Application filed. November 5, 1906, Serial No. 342,096. Renewed October 28, 1907. Serial No, 898,802,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs S. FLATAU, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Im rovement in Bottle- Stoppers, of which the ollowingisa specification.

invention relates to improvements in stoppers.

Its objects are to efiectively guard against the leakage or loss of the bottle-contents; to provide for the ready a plication of the stopper to the bottle; an to accomplish these ends in a simple, expeditious manner and at the minimum expense.

Said invention consists of a stopper adapted to be crimped or Secured to the outside of the bottle-neck and to fit into the neck for stoppering the bottle against the loss of its contents by leakage, substantially as hereinafter more fully disclosed and specifically pointed out by the claims.

In the accompanying drawing illustrating the preferred embodiment of my invention Figure 1 is a broken sectional view of a bottleneck with said invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detached erspective view of the stopper looking at it fi'om an angle disclosing more particularly its interior. Fig. 3 is a like view thereof viewing it at an angle showing more especially its top surface. a separate view of the stopper-lining. Fig. 5 is a sectional view showing the stopper with a rubber lining. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the ca constructed according to the preferred orm of the invention.

In the disclosure of my invention, I make the stopper 1, principally from metal, pref-" erably tin, the same being formed with a central inward-extension, or teat 2 forming the stopper 'roper, the resultant of which is an outward Facing depression 3, which, however, is only incidental being due to the thin character of the metal used. Said teat or extension, produced or formed by drawing orstampin the metal with the use of suitable dies s 0 such cross-sectional area or outline as to enable it, with its lining or packing presently described, applied thereto, to fit tightly in the bottle-neck. The stopper has its marginal or outward and downward extending portion 4 adapted to fit around the outside of the bottle-neck and crimped into effective position under the usual bead of the bottle-neck,

Fig. 4 is.

As above noted, I suitably apply to the 'stopper,-a lining 6, which is adapted to adhere fixedly thereto and to have contact with both the outer or upper edge of the bottleneck as well as to fit against the inner surface of the latter, after the usual bottle-stopper fashion, to provide for packing or sealing the same at all points where leakage would 0therwise be likely to occur. packing is formed preferably from pulp or elt of preferably saturated or treate with paraffin, to render said lining or packing impervious to said liquid-contents, to thus provide for the ti htfitting of the same and efiectivelv guar ing against leakage or loss of the bottle-contents at that point.

In lieu of the paraflin-treated or saturated pulp or felt lining 6, I may apply to the stoper 1, including its teat or extension 2, a linmg 7 formed from rubber which, in the case of bottling beer, would not only be proof against, but be advantageously affected by the heat retained in the latter from the pasteurizing process throu h-which it is usually Said lining or uite light color which is passed for bottling, in t at the rubber would terial, the upper layer being of metal and the inner layer or lining being of a character unobjectionable for contact with, and impervious to the bottle-contents, said layers of material being conformed to depend within and fit the interior of the bottle-neck and to overlie its top edge, the outer metal layer also be ing crimped downupon the outside thereof.

' 2. A bottle-stopper of the character described, formed of two adhering layers of material, the upper layer being of metal and the inner layer or lining bein of pulp, and the same being conformed to depend within and fit the interior of the bottle-neck, and to over lie its top edge, the outer metal layer also being crimped down upon the outside thereof as set forth. 1

In testimony whereof I affix my signature,

H. M. MOREHOUSE, T. J. HURLEY. 

